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Councilmember Austin. Yes. Councilmember Aston. Yes. Councilmember Wilding. Yes. Councilmember Smith. Yes. Councilmember Lord. Yes. All in attendance.

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Wonderful. All right. Do we have anyone here tonight that would be willing to offer invocation and lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance?

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And all are welcome and encouraged.

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And do you want to do the invocation too?

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Chief,

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how about we have our two chiefs come up and one pray and one lead us in the pledge?

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I think this is a beautiful relationship.

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Just don't trip, Chief.

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Yeah, okay.

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No,

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prepare first and then you can leave then.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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This is not a normal.

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Our Father in Heaven, we are grateful to have the opportunity to be here and meet

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as a city council and in a public office.

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and please help us tonight to make decisions that are good for the city, that will help

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the city and help us unite our city because we have a good city and we just want to unite

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our city and have everybody come together. We're thankful for the opportunity, like

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I said, to be here. Please bless our servicemen and our first responders and that they'll

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be safe, and we say these things in the name of Jesus Christ, amen. Amen.

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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

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Thank you so much. All right. Our item number two on the agenda is our minute

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and agenda approval. If there are not any changes, I will take a motion. I move

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that we approve the minutes from our last meeting and the agenda for this

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meeting. Second. Okay. This move by Council Member Aston.

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Austin.

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Seconded by Council Member Aston, all in favor.

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Aye.

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All right, we are ready for Ms. Bluffdell's presentation

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for her 2025-2026 report.

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And congratulations, your year is almost up.

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And will you just also remind us when the pageant is?

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Yes, so our upcoming pageant will be April 18th

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at 6 p.m. at Inbelly Middle School.

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My name is Adelie Brown. I'm your Miss Bluffdell 2025 and I just want to first

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thank you guys for allowing us to be here today and to present our final

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little statement for the rest of the year. This year we've been able to

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attend a ton of events both my attendance and I unfortunately my second

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attendant will not be here today but we've attended over 50 amazing events

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that this city has put on. Ifty's a lot throughout the year but it's been

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incredible. We've had some amazing opportunities to be able to serve the

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community as well as raise money for charity. My favorite event that we got

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to do this year was the adaptive arena, the active arena, sorry, softball game

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that most of you got to participate in as well, and it was so much fun. We got

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to raise over $15,000 for their organization, which was incredible. We

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got to participate in over 12 parades for other cities to be able to maintain

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that connection as well with those other cities and to have those relationships and I will leave

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the time for my first stand as well. Hi I'm Mercedes I'm Miss Bluffdale's first attendant for 2025.

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Today I wanted to start off by sharing one of my favorite memories from all the events we've

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gotten to go to. From the day we got crowned to the day we give up our crowns here we have

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9,408 hours to make an impact on our community and I'm proud to report that I have spent

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a thousand of those hours in our city making a difference in an impact.

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One of those things that I was able to do because of this program was MC the Miss Amazing

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Pageant which means I got to present 67 young girls with disabilities in our community

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to compete for their own title up to seven.

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It was really exciting and it reminded me why I chose to run for Miss Bluffdale.

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Another event that I really enjoyed was around Christmas time, I know ASL, and I helped two

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little girls tell Santa Claus what they wanted for Christmas, and they wanted Pokemon cards

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and unicorns and rainbows.

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And without me being there and having this opportunity, I wouldn't have been able

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to give that to them. And that's very special.

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Thank you. And when you're reviewing the budget

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tonight, just remember how much we truly made an impact on this community this year. Thank

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you.

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Well, we actually want to give you a round of applause.

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And we would love to do a photo

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with you if that's okay. Yes. Okay. Surprise. Let's do a photo. Let's go down and do

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a photo.

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have the box of tissues. Would you like it?

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Yes, please.

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I said I wasn't gonna cry, but I'm a crier.

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It's always, we always help each other.

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Good job.

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you both so much.

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Thank you for being advocates, ladies, for volunteerism, we're so grateful.

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All right, we're to our public comment portion of the meeting.

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So just as a note, if you're here for comment on the tentative budget, that is a public

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hearing item and that is a separate item.

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So hold off on speaking until we get to the tentative budget if that's what you're

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here for.

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if you're here for another reason we'd love to hear from you. So come on up.

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seeing anyone wanting to come up so we will go ahead and close public comment

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and we'll move to the consent agenda. If I have can get a motion on the consent

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agenda. I'll move that we approve the consent agenda. Second. Okay it was moved

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by Council Member Aston, seconded by Council Member Smith.

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All in favor?

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Aye.

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All right.

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So moved.

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We are now to Resolution 2026-21 and it is the short-term financing for the bridge and

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Bruce and Matt are both going to team present.

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I apologize.

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I'm having a hard time pulling the packet up.

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It's kind of slow.

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here we are.

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I'm actually not sure whether, come on up Matt, you can go to the main thing.

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To just kind of give an overview, I mean we can show the document on screen, but it really

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is a lengthy document and doesn't tell anything. There's no graphics or anything. So if you

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want me to broadcast it we can. But the real key here is that the city is in the

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middle of this big project where we're building an underpass under the railway that's

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got a really unique methodology of construction. We're in the process of it. We're just wrapping

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up all of the approvals from the Union Pacific and the contractors are going full bore getting

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prepped for starting to push the boxes. And we have some state funding that's going

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to be that's already allocated according to state law, but we're not going to receive

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it quite yet. And we'd like to keep the project going. And so we're requesting

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the council to approve this $30 million bond, which is going to be a temporary financing

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to keep the construction going in the near term. We're anticipating that the money will

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be available to pay it back within about two years, but we are giving us a little bit

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more time in the parameters resolution because it's hard to predict the future and you

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don't know what you don't know. And so we are putting the parameters resolution,

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gives us the information that kind of puts in all the guardrails of we won't do more than this,

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we won't do more than this, we won't go beyond this, the rate won't be higher than this.

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And by putting those guardrails in place, the council then, by approving it, allows administration

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to go in and negotiate and get the bids and make it happen.

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And if anything falls outside of the parameters resolution parameters, it doesn't happen.

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when we come back to the drawing board.

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And so the goal is to get the money,

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keep the project going full bore.

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We're excited about the project

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and the necessity of doing it.

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And with that, Matt Dugdale is our finance guru

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and helps us out with all of the different bonds

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that we have going on.

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And I'll turn the time over to him for the details.

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Thank you, Bruce.

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I don't have much to add

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rather than I did bring my bluff to a rodeo hat today

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because I told Bruce and Stephanie on the Zoom earlier today

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I would bring it.

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But I'm happy to answer any questions.

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I think Bruce did a stellar job

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summarizing the resolution itself.

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I like how he talked about guard rails.

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It's called a parameters resolution.

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I wish we called it a perimeter resolution

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because as a council you're approving it

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as long as the final terms fall within that perimeter

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you delegate to the mayor and city manager

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your ability to lock in the final terms of that bond.

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And the reason we do that is just for flexibility

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because we're dealing with investors and banks

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and it just allows us to lock in

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when the timing is most optimal for the city.

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The indenture and supplemental documents to the resolution,

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I'm happy to walk through those if it's helpful,

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but essentially if the council were to approve this tonight

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we would move forward and get it bid out

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to the financial institutions and lock in an investor and close tentatively by the end of

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May. So again, happy to, if you have any questions on the details, happy to walk you through

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and bore you to death on.

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There is one item I didn't mention that I think is a critical item here as well is

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that the nature of this bond is that we are committing the payments are going to

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becoming out of our sales tax revenue.

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So that is a commitment that we're making

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so that we couldn't then take out additional a debt

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and commit additional sales tax revenue,

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revenue except for to the extent

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that we can meet all the coverage requirements

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that they'll have with respect to that revenue.

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Right now we don't have any notes

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that are bound by the sales tax revenue.

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We have in the past, we don't at the moment.

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So it's one that's a good one for us to use

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to support this.

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And we have done this format before, back in 2011 when the city was creating the waterline

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for the NSA center, the city entered into a note as well and that structure worked great

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because we got the money from the federal government and paid that off in short order.

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So very similar circumstances to that.

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Council Member Lord.

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Yeah, I know Bruce, you explained a lot of it to us. The hope is that we won't have to

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use any of those funds because then that pulls away from the rest of the budget, isn't that

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kind of, but it's guaranteeing that we would if needed. Am I misunderstanding or

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understanding it correctly?

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Well, to the extent that the intent right now, and according to the bonds, is it will

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be an interest only.

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And so right now we would pull the funds probably from capital projects because that's what

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it relates to.

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But in order to get the financial institutions that might be investing in it to want to

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do so, we need to give them a cash flow that shows that we can actually do this.

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Okay. Yeah, that's what I thought. I just wanted to make sure I was clear on that.

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But we'll actually pay it out of capital projects.

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Council Member Smith.

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Yes. Thanks for being here. My question, it's just regarding interest rates.

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I recognize that us voting today to approve gives you that flexibility to really maximize

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when the rates could be most favorable. Just for our own benefit, how are you noticed,

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how volatile is our interest rates right now, given macro trends and everything

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going on internationally? Like is that affecting rates at all or is it just sound?

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Council Member, you did hit the nail on the head. Interest rates are very volatile and

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I do have a write-up on the market if you'd like. I'm happy to leave this with you.

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So our market in the taxis and bond space moves somewhat in tandem with treasury notes and

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treasury bonds and those have been very volatile since the beginning of March.

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Just today, our benchmark actually decreased 10 basis points or a tenth of a percent.

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And that's a large jump for our market. And so we will continue to monitor the market,

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given the circumstances, internationally. And no one can time the market perfectly, but

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we'll certainly do our best. It will be bid out to institutions, and so the city will

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be getting several bits back. I anticipate we'd award it to the best bid. But yes, interest

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rates. I'm glad we're not in the market this week, and I'm glad we weren't in the

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market last week, but yes we'll continue to monitor that. Okay, Councilmember

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Austin. I know we don't have a crystal ball for this.

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Obviously we're going to be

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spending more because we're going to be paying interest on this $30 million.

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Has that been brought up with the state leaders and have they indicated

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that because they are pushing back the time that we're going to be able to

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get this the the money from the state that is going to incur more cost on the

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city are they going to add the additional amount that we're going to be

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paying for interest to the amount they give us we we have requested from the

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state some additional funding for this particular project and to the extent

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that they provide the additional funding that will free up other dollars

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that we're spending on it right now to be able to cover the debt the debt

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payment the interest payments for a couple of years so I think we'll be

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fine in the end. We've received a very,

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let's say, confident but certainly

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encouraging reports back from our state leaders that are a part of the city and

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they indicate that they think that they'll be able to get the additional

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funding through the the additional vehicles that are now available that

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that weren't available 12 months ago.

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So we're very hopeful that that'll happen.

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We're also hopeful that we can talk the state

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into accelerating the payment for this amount

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and that we won't have the debt for as long.

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I don't know if that can happen or not.

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This is our fallback position,

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so I'm comfortable with the fallback position.

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Don't love it, but I'm comfortable that we can handle it

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and then see if we find financially.

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And then one additional question, does this bond put us at risk for a future bond that

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we may need?

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Well, we've already talked about a bond for next year for the water department.

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That's one of the interesting things about having the different funds that we have and

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fund accounting in a municipality is that the money and the fund that's paying this

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debt is not connected per se with the other bond and the water bond that we'll be asking

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for will be supported by the water rates in that particular fund.

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And the last we talked, and I haven't had Matt do it recently, but the last we talked

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we had a lot of bonding capacity in both the water department and the general fund

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to be able to cover both of these okay.

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Now, when you say will it affect us, yes, it will affect us.

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Your overall debt load always affects you.

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But I don't think that it's going to be detrimental enough that we wouldn't be able to move forward.

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And if it is, quite candidly, we would simply not pull the next bonds until these are off

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the books and then we would move forward with that.

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Thank you.

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Council Member.

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So are we going to pull all full 30 million or is it possible we can pull fractions of it at a time or?

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I am so glad that you asked that because we've had this conversation of how to structure it

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and there are a variety of ways of structuring it.

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If we get the flexibility of pulling it down like a line of credit, so to speak,

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what we would end up doing is paying a higher interest rate.

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If we pull it all at the same time, then you're able to get a lower interest rate,

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and any excess funds will then deposit into the PTF, or more likely this other type of fund

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that is specifically designed to make sure we don't get in trouble with what's called rate arbitrage,

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which is something that municipalities can do because we are borrowing money tax-free,

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and then we're investing it in potentially taxable situations.

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they don't encourage you to try to make a lot of money by doing that, which municipalities could.

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And so the delta between those two is not great enough to cause me to want to go one way or the other.

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And so as we're talking with the institutions, we'll see what they propose and what works out the best for us.

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Our intent right now would be probably to take it all down at the same time and get the lower rate.

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I know this is not ideal or what we had planned.

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If we don't pull this bond, our only other option is to stop the project now, right?

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Correct.

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Which I think is not a great idea because it's extremely painful for our citizens already.

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Do we have any indication if the two-year mark of pay from the state is that what they think

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is that overestimated, is it underestimated?

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How?

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No, it's an expected estimation.

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We know how much the fund that it's coming from is collecting right now.

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Now, it's coming from a specific pot of money that was created by the state and the county

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through some specific laws in the fifth of the fifth.

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So there's this pot of money that's collecting money all the time, and it has certain projects

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that have been designated to benefit from that pot of money.

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Ours is not the top of the list right now.

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It's down the list of ways.

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And so what we've been able to do is calculate based upon how much that fund is accumulating,

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how many projects are ahead of us.

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We anticipate that we will be collecting in about two years. Okay. Thank you

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Councilmember Wilding and then councilmember Smith

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Just a couple of comments for some of the citizens that might be listening tonight. I

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hope that everyone knows that we don't take

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Getting a $30 million bond lightly and many of us have been working our guts out up at the

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Including the mayor the council members and many of our C staff working up at the Capitol with our lobbyist to try to

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avoid that and try to expedite this funding that could come, we've done everything that

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we can and certainly don't take this lightly and however it would be a mistake with as

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well as the project is going and our good city engineer working so hard to keep this

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contractor moving it would be a mistake to slow them up or to heaven's forbid to

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stop them.

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And so it is an appropriate method to deal with that problem and I appreciate your

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time and consideration, Bruce, that you put into this and to the rest of everybody listening.

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All of us have been putting in time, concern and questions and effort to help solve the

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problem, too.

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But, you know, I also think this is probably an appropriate decision.

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Thank you.

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I want to preface that I also support the decision in keeping the project moving

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along.

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This is almost like a game theory-esque question.

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if the legislature sees that we're doing the bond,

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do we create any sort of perverse incentive for them

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to say, oh, well, you're already bonding for this,

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so you're not as much of a priority for us anymore?

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And is there any way that we can mitigate that risk?

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Is that just us being good at our job

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of going to the Hill more frequently,

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or just any thoughts on that?

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There's always that possibility.

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And it's a risk that certainly I'm willing to take because it is really critical that

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we keep this project moving.

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We have it to the point that is we're going to be needing to push the boxes very soon,

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you know, within the next few months.

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And so to keep it going to that point, we need to get all of the infrastructure underneath

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the railroads now and then if any delays were to happen then it wouldn't be that critical

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but we really need to move forward. We've worked all of the details out with the engineers

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from Union Pacific. We've got great designs. We've got the people in place. We've got

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all of the deployment of equipment and manpower is here. We need to just keep going and

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And so if that happens, I would be disappointed,

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but it's not the end of the world.

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Awesome.

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And if I can just take a point of personal privilege

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real quick, just as the one member of the council

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who wasn't on the council last year

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when this decision was made,

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I really do feel like this group

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has made the right decisions leading up to this moment.

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Like there's no way to anticipate

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how the legislature is going to change things.

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And so I just wanted to say as the one maybe impartial one who wasn't part of the decisions that have led us to this point

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I think moving the project along to get us to where we are has been the right call by my fellow committee member council members

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So I just want to say I'm I'm in this with you all and I appreciate being to work on this and that we can move it forward

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All right. Any other question? Thank you for coming tonight. We're really grateful

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Thank you for working so closely with us and we really appreciate our relationship. So thank you

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Thank you so much. Really lefto team is the best team. You know it and thanks for bringing the hat. There's another one

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Hey, we have three of them this year

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Rodeos, so you gotta count

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Thanks so much. All right. I do I have a motion I move that we approve resolution

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2026 dash 21 second. Okay. It was moved by council member Austin seconded by council member wilding roll call vote, please

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Council Member Smith. Yes. Council Member Lord. Yes. Council Member Austin. Yes. Council Member

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Aston. Yes. Council Member Wilding. Yes. Motion passed. Okay, great. Thank you everyone for your

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work on that. Moving on, we are to our tentative budget and we do not pass our final budget until

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June, but I believe that Stephanie is going to go through our budget process so that everyone can

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get psyched about it. Yes thank you Mayor Council good evening. Before I get

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started I'm going to invite Meryl Terry up. He's our finance manager and he's been

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instrumental in helping us pull together the data that's in the budget

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tonight as well as with Bruce and all the department heads has been a

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collaborative effort. So I'll be going over the slides here to give you a

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Fraud kind of overview and a little bit of the detail and then if you want even more detail

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We can have Merrill pull up the

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Documenting your packet if you so choose and we can really get down to

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Every little line item if you want to

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Great councilmember Lord has a question. Oh, yes

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This goes to what councilmember Wilding said about the previous thing so the people that are watching or learning

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this by no means is a final budget and we don't want people to think that as we

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go through everything. I know last year from the time we started to the time we

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ended there were a lot of changes and so I just encourage people to be patient

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tonight is just the initial review and then a lot of work goes on and they've

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done a ton of work and we compliment that we're excited to work with them

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So, I just don't want people to get nervous and think, oh no, we're passing something

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tonight.

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Well, no, this is just the preliminary.

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So.

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Thank you.

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I would like to add another brief interruption here as well.

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I apologize.

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This has been a very collaborative.

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I promise I'll talk about it, not me.

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This has been a very collaborative, and normally we would probably have Merrill

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doing a lot of the presentation.

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He's recently had a new baby, and so he's kind of been out of pocket for a bit.

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and we appreciate him taking time away from that fun activity to come and be

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with us this evening. All right okay we'll get on with the show here. Okay so

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yes as mentioned it's the tentative budget for fiscal year 2027 and it's

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I'm going to be presented here for consideration and vote.

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So again, we'll be working on this through June, and this is just kind of the starting

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point with the information in front of us today.

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So to give an overview, so we operate with a budget year that goes from July to June,

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And we try to manage the the growth that's happening in our in our city that we're seeing.

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It creates challenges in the budget as we increase key services that residents want and need

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and the priorities that are set forth by City Council.

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The expenditures they're called appropriations and it's the maximum that we are allowed to spend by state law.

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Revenues, we estimate these conservatively to reduce risk.

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And then we match revenue types and cost types, and I'll go into that a little bit more detail

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here shortly.

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And then by state law, the budget must balance.

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So a little bit about understanding the budget, what it means to balance a city

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budget.

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It's balanced if the projected fund is positive and also it must include an

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unappropriate fund balance between 5 and 35% and at the end of the year part of a

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balanced budget includes having those reserves available.

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So budgeting for

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cities serves a little bit different purpose than a lot different than

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businesses do. So the goal of a business budget is primarily

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We're focused on maximizing profits and could be aggressive in that goal and they may or may

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not achieve it. In government, we're more focused on providing services without a profit. And

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so we're allocating kind of limited resources among competing needs of the community. With

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With that spending is controlled through our budget and our procurement policy and the

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proper reviews and approvals that happen with that.

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And just to point out too, at the end of the year if we end up spending less than what

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we budgeted, it's because we've really done our work at keeping costs down, following

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the procurement policies.

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and some of it too is it's not so the timing of when we hire people and that

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sort of thing can cause excess in in what we spend so we always want to make

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sure we're putting the full amount that could be spent for a position or a

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given program even if it may start mid-year so when you're looking at that

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that excess keep that in mind.

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Let's see. So with prioritizing in the budget, it's getting

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our vision to align with limited resources. So if you picture this piece of farmland here

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and the limited amount of resources on that, and then all the farmers there with their

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animals needing that same resource. If everyone used it all up at once, then there wouldn't

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be anything left if we didn't replenish it. So for local government it's similar. Our resources

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are the financial resources and those can be limited and there's a lot of need across the

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different departments. So you have your police and streets and some of that rely on each

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other. If you don't keep your streets maintained the police don't have a good road to drive

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on to get where they're needing to go so

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yeah if we if this just kind of

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illustrates that if we're not prioritizing that we're not funding the

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things that we need to fund so

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priorities staff does try to come forth

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with their needs of course the City Council reviews ultimately the budget

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request and would direct to any level of importance and not all costs are

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created equally. Essential services are prioritized and cost cuts occur by

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reducing or eliminating the least crucial one compared to others.

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For revenue

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stability, property taxes are the city's most stable source of revenue. Then

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And the service fees, like the garbage collection fees, storm water and street lighting, those

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should cover just the basic expenses for those services.

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And then the less stable that vary based on economy, franchise taxes that are related

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to energy costs such as gas and electricity, they're a little bit more volatile and also

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So slightly more volatile would be sales taxes based on consumers spending habits and that

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sort of thing, if the economy were to change like it did back in 2008 to 2010 and people

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really stopped their spending back then.

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So we try to be real careful there as we're estimating our sales tax revenues.

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revenues. And then the least stable would be those more related to development and as

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development slows and space becomes more limited within the city. We're going to naturally

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see those become less. And then another revenue to mention is the interest revenue that

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it's used on whichever fund it's earned in,

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but it's not really a source that we can always count on.

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So then we have these different expenditure types.

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And as we go through the budget,

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we try to identify and match these up.

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So there's primary services such as street cleaning

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and maintaining the parks.

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Some services are discretionary,

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meaning that they may or may not happen as funds allow.

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Then each of those can be recurring or non-recurring in nature.

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Some primary services that are recurring, for example, are park restrooms must be cleaned

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regularly and garbage cans must be emptied weekly.

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Some primary services that occur less frequently or one time could be, you know, prairie farms

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is had flooding at times and so the kind of unplanned one time where we have to go

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and repair something.

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So matching types of expenditures becomes very important and

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it's something we pay careful attention to. I try to think of this and

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illustrate it as matching apples to apples, matching ongoing revenues

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with ongoing expenditures to ensure long-term stability and that apples to

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oranges don't match. So the oranges being the one time.

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So having a structurally

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balanced budget means matching these recurring revenues to recurring

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00:36:20,030 --> 00:36:24,830
expenditures and not only should recurring expenditures be funded with

461
00:36:24,830 --> 00:36:29,110
recurring revenues, the most critical should be funded with the most stable.

462
00:36:35,170 --> 00:36:41,730
So carrying on with the apples-to-apples analogy here in this

463
00:36:41,730 --> 00:36:47,450
scenario, some of the recurring revenues, the property taxes, the ongoing tax base,

464
00:36:47,650 --> 00:36:54,290
sales tax base, franchise taxes, we look at those to pay for our recurring costs such

465
00:36:54,290 --> 00:37:00,850
as the personnel, salaries and benefits, routine services, maintenance and repairs, our police

466
00:37:00,850 --> 00:37:06,090
fire and protection and that sort of thing.

467
00:37:07,870 --> 00:37:19,990
The apples to oranges illusion is when we try to take those one-time revenues and pay for the ongoing recurring costs.

468
00:37:20,570 --> 00:37:26,750
So it's really better to match up one-time revenues such as grants and the building permits, development fees,

469
00:37:26,750 --> 00:37:33,850
any surplus transfers to one-time costs, such as we see in capital projects, any

470
00:37:33,850 --> 00:37:37,810
major equipment purchases, and the development costs in any startup

471
00:37:37,810 --> 00:37:44,410
programs, such as we had recreation startup one year. And now they have

472
00:37:44,410 --> 00:37:47,370
ongoing revenue to support their their program.

473
00:37:49,470 --> 00:37:51,730
And that using oranges to pay

474
00:37:51,730 --> 00:37:53,470
for Apples creates future gaps.

475
00:37:57,930 --> 00:38:04,470
So looking at the different funds, and I know that's a little bit challenging to see, but

476
00:38:04,470 --> 00:38:08,910
we do have these different funds for different purposes.

477
00:38:10,050 --> 00:38:17,770
And as we're going through the various requests or needs of the city for the upcoming budget

478
00:38:17,770 --> 00:38:20,590
year, we look at these independently.

479
00:38:21,470 --> 00:38:31,070
For the general fund, that's where mostly the operations of the city comes out of except

480
00:38:31,070 --> 00:38:33,110
for the fire and police and the water.

481
00:38:33,430 --> 00:38:36,370
Those are in separate, their own separate restricted funds.

482
00:38:40,210 --> 00:38:45,630
And then let's see, you have our capital projects funds.

483
00:38:45,910 --> 00:38:48,230
A lot of those revenues are, like I said, are grants.

484
00:38:48,230 --> 00:38:55,950
We have the Class C road fund, that's for major street maintenance and repair projects,

485
00:38:56,490 --> 00:39:04,090
and the revenue on that comes in from fuel taxes and the portion of the sales taxes that

486
00:39:04,090 --> 00:39:06,550
gets allocated to our city.

487
00:39:08,330 --> 00:39:15,750
It cannot be used for any salaries or wages that is not related to that specific road

488
00:39:15,750 --> 00:39:16,210
maintenance.

489
00:39:16,210 --> 00:39:26,070
And also just to point out that the revenues remain in those funds and they can't be used elsewhere.

490
00:39:30,520 --> 00:39:38,220
And so taking that fund structure and just kind of showing it in our basket, fruit basket here.

491
00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:45,020
Governments, we use separate funds like the different fruit baskets and we don't mix the contents when comparing.

492
00:39:45,580 --> 00:39:49,340
And you want to keep them in their matching basket or fund type.

493
00:39:49,340 --> 00:39:50,520
And

494
00:39:52,540 --> 00:40:03,040
then restricted funds such as these here, the Capital Projects, road maintenance, water, fire police, they cannot be used to pay for general fund operating expenses.

495
00:40:09,470 --> 00:40:19,030
So I went to a conference last week, it's the Government Finance Officers Association. A lot of the cities or counties, schools are part of that.

496
00:40:20,090 --> 00:40:26,630
they teach a lot of best practices and we tend to follow their recommendation

497
00:40:26,630 --> 00:40:31,450
and best practices and what we apply as well. So when it comes to the fund

498
00:40:31,450 --> 00:40:37,330
balance, regardless of the size, the unrestricted budgetary fund balance in

499
00:40:37,330 --> 00:40:40,750
the general fund should be no less than two months of regular

500
00:40:41,510 --> 00:40:46,190
general fund operating revenues, roughly 17%. You've seen us target that

501
00:40:46,190 --> 00:40:53,950
around 18 to 20 percent is what we've tried to do. And by doing that, it mitigates

502
00:40:53,950 --> 00:41:00,250
risks in the revenue volatility or if there were a disaster and helps

503
00:41:00,250 --> 00:41:06,550
maintain the bond ratings. And they also recommend if funds are to be used it

504
00:41:06,550 --> 00:41:11,890
should be ideally replenished in one to three years to replenish the fund

505
00:41:11,890 --> 00:41:12,170
balance.

506
00:41:15,420 --> 00:41:24,660
So here we are with the budget timeline. This process started back in, at least January.

507
00:41:26,300 --> 00:41:31,620
We, Merrill and I do a lot of prep probably even before that, leading up to that, getting

508
00:41:31,620 --> 00:41:38,900
it ready, but January we really start to dive into the numbers. Our sales tax, the

509
00:41:38,900 --> 00:41:44,080
way we receive that it's a two month delay and so we can't get started too

510
00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:47,920
soon with our projections where we don't have all the all the information at

511
00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:54,480
that time but we do start working on on the expenditure side and with this

512
00:41:54,480 --> 00:42:00,000
budget timeline here we are tonight with the with the tentative budget and the

513
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:05,000
budget review committee will be meeting tomorrow to review their role is

514
00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:10,460
is to certainly ask questions of what's in the budget

515
00:42:10,460 --> 00:42:14,040
to help us connect and explain with residents on it.

516
00:42:14,200 --> 00:42:17,820
But really it's about helping the understanding

517
00:42:17,820 --> 00:42:18,960
of what's in there.

518
00:42:19,120 --> 00:42:21,700
So they've helped us build the budget book.

519
00:42:21,960 --> 00:42:23,400
They've recommended some improvements

520
00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:26,000
of how things are communicated and illustrated

521
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:28,760
so that it's easier to be understood.

522
00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:33,320
We do have an opportunity to have more budget discussions

523
00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:39,960
and in May there's two council meetings that we could if we needed to we will

524
00:42:39,960 --> 00:42:46,580
certainly be working as staff up through the June meeting with that there

525
00:42:46,580 --> 00:42:50,280
will be another public hearing on the final budget so tonight's the public

526
00:42:50,280 --> 00:42:53,680
hearing and another one in June so the public does have an opportunity to come

527
00:42:53,680 --> 00:42:58,640
and and give their input on what's in the budget and then our fiscal year

528
00:42:58,640 --> 00:43:08,720
begins July 1. We do have some key deadlines that we have to meet so before

529
00:43:08,720 --> 00:43:13,840
the first meeting of May is when we have to adopt the the tentative budget we

530
00:43:13,840 --> 00:43:19,500
typically have done it earlier allows more time to get out to the public and

531
00:43:19,500 --> 00:43:26,200
for everyone to start looking at it so we do try to not wait that long till we

532
00:43:26,200 --> 00:43:35,900
until we review the tentative budget. And then for the property tax rate, it gets

533
00:43:35,900 --> 00:43:39,300
ca- that's something that's ca- and I'll go in a little bit more detail in that too,

534
00:43:40,040 --> 00:43:44,720
but it's something that gives is given to us by and calculated by the county

535
00:43:44,720 --> 00:43:51,200
auditor. They typically should give that to us right before that June 10th

536
00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:58,180
meetings. Sometimes we're dropping it in the day of so nonetheless but we do have

537
00:43:58,180 --> 00:44:06,600
to certify it back to them by or report back by June 22nd and so if by chance we

538
00:44:06,600 --> 00:44:11,380
don't get that certified tax rate by June 10th there could be a chance of a

539
00:44:11,380 --> 00:44:16,840
special meeting if we had to because of the timing of that second meeting and

540
00:44:16,840 --> 00:44:26,580
June would be passed the deadline for that. And I just want to point out that we are not

541
00:44:26,580 --> 00:44:31,540
proposing it right now in the tentative budget any property tax increase.

542
00:44:33,980 --> 00:44:35,320
If we were we would

543
00:44:35,320 --> 00:44:41,820
need to be following the truth and taxation process and there's a pretty detailed process

544
00:44:41,820 --> 00:44:48,580
to have to go through to do that. And then City Council would adopt the final

545
00:44:48,580 --> 00:44:54,280
budget before June 30th because of when the certified tax rate is due that's why

546
00:44:54,280 --> 00:44:58,200
we kind of bumped that up earlier. Okay.

547
00:45:00,560 --> 00:45:11,680
So, for our budget process, we look at our prior year as a starting point. We adjust for

548
00:45:11,680 --> 00:45:20,020
any current year trends that we're seeing based on the economy. This year, Merrill helped

549
00:45:20,020 --> 00:45:27,660
really go back and review historical spending, kind of line by line, and recommended some

550
00:45:27,660 --> 00:45:33,360
changes there we go in and we change make input that changes by department

551
00:45:33,360 --> 00:45:39,180
and fund we look at any current projects that may have a carryover into the next

552
00:45:39,180 --> 00:45:48,060
fiscal year such as the large 146 south railroad underpass project we estimate

553
00:45:48,060 --> 00:45:52,700
revenues and we'll continue to keep looking at those as we get more data

554
00:45:52,700 --> 00:45:59,280
to help us fine-tune those estimates. When expenses come in higher than revenues, that's

555
00:45:59,280 --> 00:46:07,820
when we need to prioritize and counsel is certainly, you know, a help with that too.

556
00:46:08,700 --> 00:46:12,100
And then kind of mention these other things already.

557
00:46:14,850 --> 00:46:19,670
So our general fund revenues, as

558
00:46:19,670 --> 00:46:26,430
As we're looking at the trends here, and I just want to point out that as we go into

559
00:46:26,430 --> 00:46:31,110
some of these projections and into next year, I just want to remind everyone that there

560
00:46:31,110 --> 00:46:36,810
are estimates and we don't necessarily have control over the amounts and they can be unpredictable

561
00:46:36,810 --> 00:46:39,790
with the economy, consumer spending and that sort of thing.

562
00:46:40,670 --> 00:46:46,970
Our underlying approach has been to be a conservative and in order to reduce risk.

563
00:46:48,090 --> 00:46:58,650
So for property taxes they are remaining level plus growth but it and I it's this

564
00:46:58,650 --> 00:47:06,710
blue line right here on the chart you can see where in 24 it took a dip there

565
00:47:06,710 --> 00:47:10,650
that's that was when the referendum happened and there was an overpayment

566
00:47:10,650 --> 00:47:16,830
so it was adjusted and the money got taken back in the next fiscal year.

567
00:47:18,070 --> 00:47:23,430
and then why you're seeing a slight increase now is not because we're

568
00:47:23,430 --> 00:47:27,910
proposing to raise property taxes. It has to do with our Eastern Bluff Dell

569
00:47:28,750 --> 00:47:37,950
economic development area expiring and we'll now see those property taxes shift

570
00:47:37,950 --> 00:47:42,310
out of that fund and it'll show up in ultimately our Fire and Police

571
00:47:42,310 --> 00:47:48,130
Protection Fund because that's where property taxes go but what that does is

572
00:47:48,130 --> 00:47:52,870
it also there's an offset in the management fee we're not going to be

573
00:47:52,870 --> 00:47:58,190
getting that revenue anymore so it looks like an increase overall but it's not

574
00:47:58,190 --> 00:48:07,510
really. Cells taxes are fairly, we're seeing a fairly consistent incline with

575
00:48:07,510 --> 00:48:12,430
with online shopping continuing to be probably the bigger driver there.

576
00:48:13,410 --> 00:48:18,810
And then, so modest growth, we all know we have a new grocery store and there's some

577
00:48:18,810 --> 00:48:25,010
other dining areas that are opening and that sort of thing, but keeping in mind that they

578
00:48:25,010 --> 00:48:30,590
can be erratic and then also just to point out that we do have this two month delay

579
00:48:30,590 --> 00:48:35,270
and the data that we're looking at is from January right now.

580
00:48:37,230 --> 00:48:46,310
So development, housing is slowing with project, so let's see what one is this one, licenses

581
00:48:46,310 --> 00:48:47,770
and permits right here.

582
00:48:48,370 --> 00:48:49,070
So it's slowing.

583
00:48:49,810 --> 00:48:56,470
The projects that we're aware of right now, they would either be completed in this fiscal

584
00:48:56,470 --> 00:48:57,190
year or next.

585
00:48:57,330 --> 00:49:02,930
So we kind of spread the revenue that we're expecting between those two fiscal years

586
00:49:02,930 --> 00:49:08,630
but it would not happen in both. So as we get closer to the June we'll be able

587
00:49:08,630 --> 00:49:13,090
to probably adjust our estimate there and show that a little bit more closely.

588
00:49:13,730 --> 00:49:19,190
And then the fee increases those are tied to cost recovery such as the

589
00:49:19,190 --> 00:49:21,970
garbage collection and that sort of thing.

590
00:49:24,990 --> 00:49:27,770
Okay so this is we do get a lot

591
00:49:27,770 --> 00:49:32,630
of questions and here's some misunderstandings regarding property

592
00:49:32,630 --> 00:49:40,190
taxes. So I just wanted to dive in just a little bit and show this is what a current or what

593
00:49:40,190 --> 00:49:49,770
a current resident would receive for their last year's property tax notice. And I'm again

594
00:49:49,770 --> 00:49:54,250
just going to state there's no property tax increase currently being proposed. So just

595
00:49:54,250 --> 00:49:59,070
want to walk through the details with you. Things to point out on this when you

596
00:49:59,070 --> 00:50:10,010
get this statement is the change in the market value. There is a 45% resident exemption reduction.

597
00:50:11,430 --> 00:50:17,550
When we look and talk about the Bluffdell City portion, I've – it's hard to read

598
00:50:17,550 --> 00:50:21,850
up there, but this is the part we – that comes to our city and that we're talking

599
00:50:21,850 --> 00:50:24,530
and about when it comes to property taxes.

600
00:50:25,930 --> 00:50:32,210
If any entity were to be doing a property tax increase, they're going to tell you that

601
00:50:32,210 --> 00:50:37,090
change as well as when their public hearing for that is as they do have to go through

602
00:50:37,610 --> 00:50:39,430
the truth and taxation process.

603
00:50:43,500 --> 00:50:48,000
And so just to kind of show you a little bit bigger picture here, the portion that

604
00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:59,480
we're talking about of your total property tax statement is just under 10% of Bluffdell's

605
00:50:59,480 --> 00:51:07,420
share of that. And as time has gone on and other entities have raised their tax rates

606
00:51:07,420 --> 00:51:10,800
and we have not, that portion continues to go down.

607
00:51:17,270 --> 00:51:21,130
So with the certified tax rate

608
00:51:21,130 --> 00:51:28,470
In order to be fair to the taxpayer, truth and taxation prohibits units of local government

609
00:51:28,470 --> 00:51:34,810
from obtaining windfall revenues as a result of revaluation or equalization projects as

610
00:51:34,810 --> 00:51:37,350
required by Utah state law.

611
00:51:38,470 --> 00:51:48,070
So what that means is as Utah state property, sorry, as property values rise, the property

612
00:51:48,070 --> 00:51:54,930
tax rate must fall and that adjusted rate is what's called the certified tax rate

613
00:51:54,930 --> 00:52:05,170
and that is calculated by the county auditor not by us and with that also it

614
00:52:05,170 --> 00:52:11,060
does not account for any type of inflation that might be occurring and

615
00:52:11,550 --> 00:52:17,690
so as time goes on the city's purchasing power could decline as well so

616
00:52:20,340 --> 00:52:24,660
So when the city does need to collect more revenue than the previous year, they must increase

617
00:52:24,660 --> 00:52:30,120
the rate and in order to do that, they would need to go through a truth and taxation process,

618
00:52:30,120 --> 00:52:37,180
which is a whole lot of checklist items and public hearing and noticing.

619
00:52:38,200 --> 00:52:40,260
And again, this is not planned for 2026.

620
00:52:40,480 --> 00:52:45,200
I just like to take the opportunity to explain that as it comes up.

621
00:52:45,560 --> 00:52:48,480
It's one of those more complex things to understand.

622
00:52:50,360 --> 00:52:59,400
And also, as even if the city doesn't raise their rate, your personal property tax bill

623
00:52:59,400 --> 00:53:06,260
might still go up because of those highlighted things that were on that property tax statement.

624
00:53:06,800 --> 00:53:11,600
If your specific property value increased much more than the average, resulting in

625
00:53:11,600 --> 00:53:17,580
a higher share of the overall tax burden, or if there was a special specific voter

626
00:53:17,580 --> 00:53:23,100
approved bond that was passed for a new school or that sort of thing, or if another entity

627
00:53:23,100 --> 00:53:30,060
raised their rate, such as the water district or any of other entities on that property notice.

628
00:53:33,940 --> 00:53:42,540
So here's how our certified tax rate shows historically, and you can see over the last

629
00:53:42,540 --> 00:53:47,480
five years it's been declining, maybe even longer than that.

630
00:53:48,460 --> 00:53:58,560
The big jumps are when we had actual truth in taxation for a rate increase in 2017, which

631
00:53:58,560 --> 00:54:05,300
I believe was for public safety costs, and 2019 is when we added the second fire station.

632
00:54:06,320 --> 00:54:12,320
And then prior to that, only a couple other times has the city had a property tax increase.

633
00:54:13,900 --> 00:54:20,640
And then we are expecting to receive our rate from the state auditor, like I said, in June.

634
00:54:24,240 --> 00:54:35,040
Because we overlap in two counties, so ours tends to come last because they have to equalize

635
00:54:35,040 --> 00:54:36,380
our rate across the two counties.

636
00:54:41,040 --> 00:54:45,920
So we look to see how we're doing to our neighbors.

637
00:54:45,920 --> 00:54:51,540
The line going across just shows where Bluffdell is.

638
00:54:54,590 --> 00:55:06,490
Some of the ones below the line, they have a lot more retail and that sells tax to help offset their needs.

639
00:55:06,490 --> 00:55:17,310
And there's ones that are part of UFA or sorry Unified Fire or some other special police district.

640
00:55:18,270 --> 00:55:27,730
I also, we went through and made note of ones that did have increases last year and also

641
00:55:27,730 --> 00:55:35,710
there was one because of new state legislature for whatever reason didn't get theirs.

642
00:55:35,710 --> 00:55:39,870
there's came back rejected because they didn't meet all the requirements even

643
00:55:39,870 --> 00:55:45,350
though they went through the process and and all of that so yeah we really need

644
00:55:45,350 --> 00:55:49,470
to make sure if we were to do that that we're following all those things and

645
00:55:49,470 --> 00:55:57,010
then also with that I did include the the fee and equivalent rate to show

646
00:55:57,010 --> 00:55:58,870
that on ours.

647
00:56:01,700 --> 00:56:09,680
Okay so now we'll kind of get into the budget itself and so at a

648
00:56:09,680 --> 00:56:18,000
glance our general fund revenue is about 17 million dollars. By the time we put

649
00:56:18,000 --> 00:56:23,980
some more changes and dropped it in the packet on Friday the use of fund

650
00:56:23,980 --> 00:56:27,920
balance was $556,000.

651
00:56:31,700 --> 00:56:40,980
Right now showing a 13% general fund cash balance. Now with that,

652
00:56:41,220 --> 00:56:46,640
we do, we're still waiting for this year to finish and so that, depending on how this

653
00:56:46,640 --> 00:56:53,080
year finishes, that actually could go up and we're still going to target that 18%.

654
00:56:54,380 --> 00:56:59,860
And then just thoughtful planning to balance service levels, infrastructure needs and long-term

655
00:56:59,860 --> 00:57:04,600
fiscal sustainability is our goal there.

656
00:57:06,080 --> 00:57:14,160
So some of the strategic drivers here to retain our employees as we are a service organization

657
00:57:14,160 --> 00:57:21,240
that is our biggest asset and also our biggest cost.

658
00:57:23,440 --> 00:57:24,880
Maintain current service

659
00:57:24,880 --> 00:57:31,440
levels in all departments. Limit our discretionary spending. There is a need

660
00:57:31,440 --> 00:57:37,540
for additional police officers as part of the contract. Responsibly manage

661
00:57:37,540 --> 00:57:41,680
growth and plan for the future. Maintain and invest in infrastructure,

662
00:57:41,680 --> 00:57:47,200
structure, transparent funding sources, and sustainable financial future.

663
00:57:49,820 --> 00:57:56,360
So some of the components here that are driving some of the increases.

664
00:57:57,700 --> 00:58:05,540
We have an inflation rate just under 3% with fuel kind of going up and down.

665
00:58:06,100 --> 00:58:07,700
We're going to have to keep an eye on that.

666
00:58:07,700 --> 00:58:14,140
So, have 3% there, cost of living, 3% with that.

667
00:58:15,320 --> 00:58:21,260
We did compare it as some other surrounding cities and this is a cost of living increase

668
00:58:21,260 --> 00:58:21,680
only.

669
00:58:21,900 --> 00:58:27,720
Some others are also doing a merit, but this is what we're proposing in this budget.

670
00:58:29,280 --> 00:58:37,000
And then our benefit premiums right now coming back with our medical increasing 15%

671
00:58:37,000 --> 00:58:43,760
and dental increasing 2%. We are going to be meeting with our benefit broker to

672
00:58:43,760 --> 00:58:51,760
explore other options and try to analyze that the best we can with the impact to

673
00:58:51,760 --> 00:58:58,500
the financial impact as well as to our employees of what that would do. And then

674
00:58:58,500 --> 00:59:07,480
Then water rates from Jordan Valley water is increasing 4.5 percent and then the garbage

675
00:59:07,480 --> 00:59:16,940
and green waste for a CPI increase from waste management of increasing 4.8 percent.

676
00:59:17,840 --> 00:59:25,900
And then overall the contribution to the Fire Police Protection Fund overall will

677
00:59:25,900 --> 00:59:33,780
remain flat but you'll see kind of it shift between the property tax as I

678
00:59:33,780 --> 00:59:39,920
mentioned that with the EDA ending will go up a bit. Bruce wants to say something.

679
00:59:39,920 --> 00:59:43,760
Yeah, pardon me for just a minute. We talked about different CPIs where we've

680
00:59:43,760 --> 00:59:49,220
got the COLA up there and inflation rate of 3%. The garbage and green waste is

681
00:59:49,220 --> 00:59:54,240
based upon a very specific CPI that relates to that particular industry and

682
00:59:54,240 --> 00:59:55,860
our contract ties to that.

683
00:59:57,320 --> 00:59:59,860
Historically, that has been less.

684
01:00:00,080 --> 01:00:08,480
Then the general CPI. This year, last year, it's been a little bit higher, but it is reflective

685
01:00:08,480 --> 01:00:12,580
specifically of that industry's costs and what's happening to them.

686
01:00:20,390 --> 01:00:20,670
Okay.

687
01:00:23,680 --> 01:00:32,230
So to support our growing city, we have these, even though the population and growth

688
01:00:32,230 --> 01:00:39,510
might be slowing slightly. We are still growing in our service needs, which is influencing

689
01:00:39,510 --> 01:00:50,430
our staffing and the demands for service, particularly in the public safety area, as

690
01:00:50,430 --> 01:00:59,190
well as also communications with our residents that they're wanting more commu-, more information

691
01:00:59,190 --> 01:01:12,050
more quickly so with this adding three police officers at mid-year and making

692
01:01:12,050 --> 01:01:19,090
our part-time communication into a full-time and we

693
01:01:21,490 --> 01:01:23,150
also looked at ways we

694
01:01:23,150 --> 01:01:29,010
could reduce so some of these positions where they haven't been filled yet not

695
01:01:29,010 --> 01:01:36,210
filling so removing two seasonal parks positions which would still leave them

696
01:01:36,210 --> 01:01:42,010
with three and removing one street seasonal position which would leave them

697
01:01:42,010 --> 01:01:50,590
with with one and then in water I believe removing two would leave them with no

698
01:01:50,590 --> 01:01:58,770
additional seasonal workers for this budget year and then if you recall back

699
01:01:58,770 --> 01:02:05,690
in November there was a budget adjustment for to add a part-time firefighter

700
01:02:05,690 --> 01:02:13,450
position to help with the the major road project being that underpass project

701
01:02:13,450 --> 01:02:19,610
and having staffing at both stations and having the response time needed and

702
01:02:19,610 --> 01:02:25,730
so at that time we did not add any revenue to cover that position. Next year

703
01:02:25,730 --> 01:02:31,930
we will see the full year of that and so and then also with certain vacant

704
01:02:31,930 --> 01:02:37,270
positions not being filled where appropriate so if we need to fill the

705
01:02:37,270 --> 01:02:43,590
position we will but if it's in an area that it's appropriate to not we

706
01:02:43,590 --> 01:02:44,430
looked at doing that.

707
01:02:52,730 --> 01:02:58,010
So with with our general fund revenue breakdown so

708
01:02:58,010 --> 01:03:03,710
So sales tax remains our largest revenue, but it is volatile.

709
01:03:04,810 --> 01:03:12,430
Property taxes being the most stable, again, going to Fire Police Protection Fund.

710
01:03:13,990 --> 01:03:19,590
And then the charges for services such as garbage, street lights, storm water, and

711
01:03:19,590 --> 01:03:21,070
then some of those others you see up there.

712
01:03:21,550 --> 01:03:25,430
Notable mentions that we took a conservative budgeting approach.

713
01:03:25,430 --> 01:03:30,870
development related revenues are expected to be down and then again the

714
01:03:30,870 --> 01:03:37,410
Eastern Bluff Dell EDA contract period ending. So the top spending areas in the

715
01:03:37,410 --> 01:03:45,010
general fund, that contribution to the Fire and Police Protection Fund, parks

716
01:03:45,010 --> 01:03:52,570
and recs, administration, sanitation, facilities and streets. And then notable

717
01:03:52,570 --> 01:04:00,090
mentioned here, we did have citywide reductions in the training travel,

718
01:04:00,710 --> 01:04:09,790
equipment supplies, and shop charges, as well as not filling some vacancies. And you'll see that

719
01:04:09,790 --> 01:04:17,970
in the packet, we went through and highlighted the lines that were decreased to see that we

720
01:04:17,970 --> 01:04:23,210
We really did try to go across the board and reduce some discretionary spending.

721
01:04:25,250 --> 01:04:32,190
Facilities is increasing for the general fund portion of the debt payment on the new public

722
01:04:32,190 --> 01:04:37,050
works complex that's starting next fiscal year.

723
01:04:38,770 --> 01:04:40,730
This one we were able to use fund balance.

724
01:04:41,170 --> 01:04:46,150
So now going forward, we're going to be pulling from it's split with water.

725
01:04:46,150 --> 01:04:49,450
So half comes from water and the other half comes from the general fund.

726
01:04:50,530 --> 01:04:57,530
And then also seeing contract price increases, which Bruce mentioned for the sanitation.

727
01:04:58,110 --> 01:05:03,830
And then we also have our animal control services that is contracted with the county.

728
01:05:07,380 --> 01:05:08,460
Community events.

729
01:05:09,480 --> 01:05:12,920
So the arena renovation is completed.

730
01:05:12,920 --> 01:05:19,980
and just a reminder most of that was done with a $2.7 million grant. This

731
01:05:19,980 --> 01:05:26,660
upcoming year we're going to be having a three-day rodeo with fireworks to

732
01:05:26,660 --> 01:05:34,020
celebrate America 250. There is increased seating capacity and added ADA

733
01:05:34,020 --> 01:05:40,620
standards with the bleachers now and then we've seen expanded events like

734
01:05:40,620 --> 01:05:47,340
Like this last year we had the bull riding round page and we'll be having a monster truck

735
01:05:47,340 --> 01:05:51,140
show which I believe just got advertised for the tickets.

736
01:05:54,400 --> 01:06:01,560
Revenues typically come from sponsors, donations, a lot from ticket sales and some grants.

737
01:06:01,560 --> 01:06:12,040
And then there's Old West days, sorry, the community events that receive some city

738
01:06:12,040 --> 01:06:20,140
contributions and Ms. Bluff Dell does as well as I believe the arts.

739
01:06:22,910 --> 01:06:25,550
And then so

740
01:06:25,550 --> 01:06:31,630
total community event budget between all of those is 396,000.

741
01:06:35,990 --> 01:06:36,550
So the

742
01:06:36,550 --> 01:06:42,990
The Class C road funds are allocated based on state distributions that they calculate.

743
01:06:43,770 --> 01:06:51,590
They look at the city's road miles and considering paved and unpaved as well as population and

744
01:06:51,590 --> 01:06:52,430
distribute that.

745
01:06:53,290 --> 01:06:58,950
We're looking to see about 1.8 million.

746
01:07:00,470 --> 01:07:08,450
most of that being spent on a road maintenance schedule to keep our roads

747
01:07:08,450 --> 01:07:15,770
maintained and then some equipment that can be paid for from Class C roads as

748
01:07:15,770 --> 01:07:21,450
they're related to it is a bucket truck. Our current one only holds one person

749
01:07:21,450 --> 01:07:27,510
and for safety they have requested to get one that can hold two and then

750
01:07:27,510 --> 01:07:33,670
and also an emergency light tower, an emergency message board that helps with notifications

751
01:07:33,670 --> 01:07:34,610
on the roads.

752
01:07:41,980 --> 01:07:49,680
So the economic development area or redevelopment area, these are separate funds.

753
01:07:55,900 --> 01:08:02,900
So the Eastern Bluff Dell has it ended, and we received our last payment this fiscal year.

754
01:08:02,900 --> 01:08:12,840
The gateway, so the revenue left in there is is just interest. The gateway RDA will

755
01:08:12,840 --> 01:08:24,920
expire in fiscal year 20, sorry 27 next year. And then the Jordan Narrows EDA has

756
01:08:24,920 --> 01:08:31,840
reached its contract terms and capped out. So it's a, they are locally

757
01:08:31,840 --> 01:08:39,460
designated areas aim to improve public infrastructure, create jobs, attract commercial and residential

758
01:08:39,460 --> 01:08:45,620
development and stimulate economic growth and there is a restriction for a restricted

759
01:08:45,620 --> 01:08:52,900
fund use for affordable housing and so we want to make sure we keep that in mind as

760
01:08:52,900 --> 01:08:53,100
well.

761
01:08:54,220 --> 01:08:59,300
So as a note that $400,000 in the Jordan Narrows is just the interest expense.

762
01:08:59,560 --> 01:08:59,760
Yes.

763
01:08:59,900 --> 01:09:00,020
Excuse me.

764
01:09:00,020 --> 01:09:02,860
interesting there is no other revenue source there

765
01:09:07,600 --> 01:09:11,240
okay and for impact fees so

766
01:09:11,240 --> 01:09:20,020
these fluctuate based on development activity and again this this as projects

767
01:09:20,020 --> 01:09:29,160
kind of span both this year and next we we try to estimate our best guests on

768
01:09:29,160 --> 01:09:33,480
that but they will not occur in both and again we'll be able to know a

769
01:09:33,480 --> 01:09:36,240
bit more about that by the time we get to that June meeting.

770
01:09:37,700 --> 01:09:46,360
And there is a current impact fee study underway that would probably be coming for review in

771
01:09:46,360 --> 01:09:54,180
the near future for how these funds can be used against which facilities.

772
01:09:54,180 --> 01:10:04,240
In capital projects, obviously this is kind of the bigger one with the big

773
01:10:04,240 --> 01:10:10,960
project, major project that we've mentioned and with that bond

774
01:10:10,960 --> 01:10:19,060
anticipation note and state funding coming for that. There's also a

775
01:10:19,060 --> 01:10:24,860
cinchway bridge, pedestrian bridge that is tied to a grant and then also a

776
01:10:24,860 --> 01:10:33,160
potential fire station 93 if a grant is awarded for that as well.

777
01:10:33,800 --> 01:10:43,340
So because most of our resources are going towards the railroad crossing project, anything

778
01:10:43,340 --> 01:10:50,440
left is really going to be either a shared project currently already underway or a grant

779
01:10:50,440 --> 01:10:50,920
related.

780
01:10:53,850 --> 01:10:59,990
So the bulk of it, here's a more detailed list, so funded with capital, fund balance

781
01:10:59,990 --> 01:11:04,530
and transfers, they're on the left of about just under $2 million.

782
01:11:05,350 --> 01:11:11,210
And then the big portions of those that are funded with grants, other governmental reimbursements

783
01:11:11,210 --> 01:11:19,690
are shared, is that larger $66 plus million, bringing the total to about $68 million

784
01:11:19,690 --> 01:11:22,530
in that capital projects.

785
01:11:22,530 --> 01:11:30,850
Now, we do have some items that were removed, some requests that were removed or reduced.

786
01:11:31,290 --> 01:11:35,110
So such as a forklift is needed.

787
01:11:35,330 --> 01:11:41,330
These are things kind of – eventually, we'll need to address these or circle back

788
01:11:41,330 --> 01:11:43,930
around to see what the needs are.

789
01:11:44,510 --> 01:11:50,510
A Rose Creek Trail connector, the miscellaneous traffic calming measures was reduced and

790
01:11:50,510 --> 01:11:55,810
And then others based on grant funding and then future needs, because we do tend to look

791
01:11:55,810 --> 01:12:03,510
out five years when we're looking just to put this on the radar, there will be a need

792
01:12:03,510 --> 01:12:11,350
for a new fire engine, ambulance, vector, stormwater service truck, and ongoing road

793
01:12:11,350 --> 01:12:12,770
maintenance projects and maintenance.

794
01:12:13,570 --> 01:12:19,690
So the capital projects, that's just a little bit, so it can be a lengthy list

795
01:12:19,690 --> 01:12:28,470
and there's always a need to have an end-of-year transfer to help fund some of these where we

796
01:12:28,470 --> 01:12:28,730
can.

797
01:12:34,250 --> 01:12:43,470
So in our water fund, there's some major investments continue in infrastructure and water delivery

798
01:12:43,470 --> 01:12:53,690
and a new tank and pump station for zone 2 West and the effluent water reuse as well

799
01:12:53,690 --> 01:13:00,990
as rate adjustments anticipated, as was mentioned, and it's about $21 million there.

800
01:13:02,110 --> 01:13:07,410
And then the portion of impact fees for the water tank,

801
01:13:11,320 --> 01:13:11,640
okay.

802
01:13:12,600 --> 01:13:14,960
Fire Police Protection Fund.

803
01:13:16,100 --> 01:13:27,700
So, police with an increase by additional FTEs and with that contract growth.

804
01:13:28,540 --> 01:13:34,640
And then the fire department, again, that full year of that part-time position, so funding

805
01:13:34,640 --> 01:13:40,020
that for the full year, and then also just continuing to maintain staffing for both stations,

806
01:13:40,020 --> 01:13:48,260
stations, as well as like sometimes we, they're getting overtime for the callbacks. It's nice

807
01:13:48,260 --> 01:13:57,860
to have our full-time captains and lieutenants now that they're able to come back. However,

808
01:13:58,020 --> 01:14:04,060
they are higher paid and so it does bring up the overtime a little bit. And so, but

809
01:14:04,060 --> 01:14:10,660
But ultimately the achievement of keeping the stations open and staffed has been a remarkable

810
01:14:10,660 --> 01:14:14,840
change since adding those full-time fire positions.

811
01:14:18,390 --> 01:14:28,110
And just to show the history of property tax revenue to public safety costs, and I did

812
01:14:28,110 --> 01:14:32,230
drop in to include also the public safety fee.

813
01:14:32,230 --> 01:14:39,750
So, the red is the costs and then the blue is the property tax revenue.

814
01:14:41,690 --> 01:14:49,970
And so, the Fire Police Protection Fund was created and 100% of property taxes goes towards

815
01:14:49,970 --> 01:14:50,750
public safety.

816
01:14:51,910 --> 01:14:54,090
Well, this I've said, sorry about that.

817
01:14:55,590 --> 01:14:59,050
and then committing the most stable revenue.

818
01:15:01,100 --> 01:15:11,640
Yeah. We are anticipating, let's see, we've, we've, we started the public safety fee in September of 2024.

819
01:15:12,700 --> 01:15:26,440
And with this and looking at the revenues here, we are proposing a public safety fee increase with the, with the ongoing revenue to cover the ongoing costs there.

820
01:15:26,440 --> 01:15:27,240
And

821
01:15:31,370 --> 01:15:36,190
I didn't meant so we're looking at right now that fee to be around six

822
01:15:36,190 --> 01:15:41,790
and a half to seven dollars increase. Again we'll look at that as it gets

823
01:15:41,790 --> 01:15:50,510
closer and hopefully be able to determine what that will be by June and we

824
01:15:50,950 --> 01:15:54,130
would bring back a consolidated fee schedule where that would actually be

825
01:15:54,130 --> 01:15:54,610
adopted.

826
01:15:57,090 --> 01:16:01,150
The local building authority so this is a special fund to

827
01:16:01,150 --> 01:16:06,230
facilitate construction and financing of city buildings such as the City Hall

828
01:16:06,230 --> 01:16:13,370
Building and the Public Works Complex. The Public Works is done and they've

829
01:16:13,370 --> 01:16:18,110
moved in and have been working out of that and it's a pretty neat building to

830
01:16:18,110 --> 01:16:26,370
go tour. So what's left in there is now the the debt payments that that we

831
01:16:26,370 --> 01:16:26,950
see in there.

832
01:16:31,380 --> 01:16:42,920
So getting towards the end here, just to summarize the budget results, mentioned

833
01:16:42,920 --> 01:16:48,820
a lot of this, but also with those police officers adding three vehicles, I don't think I mentioned

834
01:16:48,820 --> 01:16:57,620
that. And that's pretty much the summary there. And then looking ahead, let's

835
01:16:59,990 --> 01:17:02,410
see. Yeah, just

836
01:17:02,410 --> 01:17:08,530
looking ahead to the future, reduce book continuing growth, continue to higher than average inflation,

837
01:17:09,270 --> 01:17:15,890
strategic investment in infrastructure, and community engagement and transparency is always

838
01:17:15,890 --> 01:17:22,290
goal for us as well and just future decisions on the public safety fee and

839
01:17:22,730 --> 01:17:31,050
property tax rates. And just as the as the saying goes you know it's we're looking

840
01:17:31,050 --> 01:17:38,910
ahead and hindsight's always 2020 so with that it is the tentative budget and

841
01:17:38,910 --> 01:17:42,530
and it will change by June,

842
01:17:42,730 --> 01:17:44,590
but this is what we have before you tonight.

843
01:17:45,850 --> 01:17:48,870
Happy to pull up the document in your packet.

844
01:17:49,310 --> 01:17:51,230
Merrill, I think, is ready to do that if we need

845
01:17:51,230 --> 01:17:54,550
and if you had specific questions that we could jump to

846
01:17:54,550 --> 01:17:57,970
or open it for discussion in the public hearing

847
01:17:57,970 --> 01:17:59,490
and setting the time and place

848
01:17:59,490 --> 01:18:03,030
for the final budget in June.

849
01:18:04,270 --> 01:18:07,250
Okay, we will actually open the public hearing first

850
01:18:07,250 --> 01:18:13,610
first and then bring it back to the council. So if there is anyone here tonight that would

851
01:18:13,610 --> 01:18:17,830
like to make public comment regarding the tentative budget, we'd love to hear from you.

852
01:18:22,650 --> 01:18:26,350
And just tell us your name and what city you live in.

853
01:18:29,310 --> 01:18:35,030
You might need to keep those tissues on hand, Mayor. Good evening, Mayor Hall and council

854
01:18:35,030 --> 01:18:43,830
members. Sorry I'm nervous. My name is Helen Smith and I'm a resident of Bluffdale. Thank you

855
01:18:43,830 --> 01:18:45,510
for the opportunity to speak tonight.

856
01:18:52,450 --> 01:18:55,350
I'm here to share my experience navigating the victim support

857
01:18:55,350 --> 01:19:02,750
system in our community. In November of 2024 the police came to my residence on a call of domestic

858
01:19:02,750 --> 01:19:08,910
violence. After I filed the police report the officer gave me the phone number for my victim

859
01:19:08,910 --> 01:19:14,230
advocate. At such a scary time, I needed the resources, support and legal

860
01:19:14,230 --> 01:19:19,750
guidance that only a victim advocate could provide me. I proceeded to call

861
01:19:19,750 --> 01:19:24,090
four separate times throughout November and December, each time no one

862
01:19:24,090 --> 01:19:30,230
answered. I'd leave a message and I would receive no callback. Over the

863
01:19:30,230 --> 01:19:37,050
following year, I would sporadically try again, but I always got the same

864
01:19:37,050 --> 01:19:37,490
results.

865
01:19:39,980 --> 01:19:43,740
As I tried to reach out to other places for information, I was always

866
01:19:43,740 --> 01:19:49,560
redirected to contact my local victim advocate for the best resources. Defeated,

867
01:19:49,880 --> 01:19:53,580
I proceeded through the judicial system and rebuilding my life without the

868
01:19:53,580 --> 01:19:54,600
necessary support.

869
01:20:01,840 --> 01:20:05,460
In March of this year, I decided to try calling again. When I

870
01:20:05,460 --> 01:20:09,020
received the same results, I called the front desk of the Saratoga Springs

871
01:20:09,020 --> 01:20:12,660
Police Department and the officer helped connect me to the victim

872
01:20:12,660 --> 01:20:20,240
advocate. At last I thought I can finally receive some help. Unfortunately

873
01:20:20,240 --> 01:20:25,340
because our services are contracted through Sarah Tuka Springs, her resources

874
01:20:25,340 --> 01:20:30,540
and professional connections were only for Utah County. She sent me a few

875
01:20:30,540 --> 01:20:36,300
resources but many of them do not offer services to Salt Lake County. After a

876
01:20:36,300 --> 01:20:42,180
follow-up phone call she sent me a list from a previous employee. That list

877
01:20:42,180 --> 01:20:49,620
was years old. I called the Riverton victim advocate but she said she can only do so much

878
01:20:49,620 --> 01:20:54,840
since my case is not assigned to her police department. All of this is to express Mayor

879
01:20:54,840 --> 01:21:00,900
Holland Council members that there is currently no assistance or services available to victims

880
01:21:00,900 --> 01:21:06,680
of crime in Bluffdale. Our city needs its own dedicated victim advocate with roots

881
01:21:06,680 --> 01:21:12,220
in the community, connections throughout Salt Lake County, and access to resources for the

882
01:21:12,220 --> 01:21:19,300
community they are serving. Thank you. And will you make sure to leave your contact information

883
01:21:19,300 --> 01:21:24,620
for me? Yeah. With Tami. I can, yes. Okay. Thank you so much for coming tonight, Helen.

884
01:21:26,780 --> 01:21:31,120
The budget for the police department is really important and that was helpful for us

885
01:21:31,120 --> 01:21:33,140
and we'll keep in touch.

886
01:21:33,800 --> 01:21:35,260
Is there anyone else here tonight

887
01:21:35,260 --> 01:21:37,840
to make comment on the tenet of budget?

888
01:21:39,780 --> 01:21:43,240
All right, we will go ahead and close the public hearing

889
01:21:43,240 --> 01:21:45,500
for the tenet of budget and bring it back

890
01:21:45,500 --> 01:21:50,840
to the council for questions for our finance department.

891
01:21:52,400 --> 01:21:53,440
Council Member Smith.

892
01:21:53,820 --> 01:21:56,000
Mayor, just a parliamentary question.

893
01:21:56,300 --> 01:21:58,560
Am I allowed to reference the public comment

894
01:21:58,560 --> 01:21:59,840
that was made at all or?

895
01:22:01,160 --> 01:22:02,480
Well, for funding you mean?

896
01:22:03,060 --> 01:22:04,440
Yes, let's say.

897
01:22:04,700 --> 01:22:06,380
Well, we'll just discuss it after the meeting.

898
01:22:06,720 --> 01:22:06,840
Okay.

899
01:22:08,020 --> 01:22:08,300
Okay.

900
01:22:08,960 --> 01:22:11,420
Because it's part of the contract that we need to discuss.

901
01:22:11,860 --> 01:22:14,240
I just, if it's okay to say I'd like to reach out as well.

902
01:22:14,920 --> 01:22:17,480
Based on the work I do, it's not a domestic violence coalition.

903
01:22:17,780 --> 01:22:21,320
And just want to say thank you for being so vulnerable to talk about that in a public place.

904
01:22:21,840 --> 01:22:22,320
That's all.

905
01:22:22,800 --> 01:22:22,940
Thank you.

906
01:22:22,940 --> 01:22:26,320
Anything else on the questions for our accounting team?

907
01:22:26,440 --> 01:22:27,500
I just want to make note.

908
01:22:27,500 --> 01:22:34,740
I want to say thank you first of all this it did not happen overnight this was a

909
01:22:34,740 --> 01:22:40,800
lot of work and it was a lot of redo and redo and redo and I would like to thank

910
01:22:40,800 --> 01:22:44,880
staff for all of the work but I also would like to say thank you to our

911
01:22:44,880 --> 01:22:51,080
council all of our council members took time and they all came in and met

912
01:22:51,080 --> 01:22:58,480
individually with our finance department and it really it really shows your

913
01:22:58,480 --> 01:23:03,140
dedication to our city all of you for taking the time to come and go through

914
01:23:03,140 --> 01:23:07,700
line by line and and go through the budget it's a huge sacrifice and I

915
01:23:07,700 --> 01:23:12,440
want to thank the council for doing that ahead of time and because we have

916
01:23:12,440 --> 01:23:17,400
each taken so much time combing through this and working with with our

917
01:23:17,400 --> 01:23:21,860
staff and your presentation was just so thorough

918
01:23:21,860 --> 01:23:23,580
on the process of budgeting.

919
01:23:24,240 --> 01:23:27,000
Hopefully we've been able to educate the public a little bit

920
01:23:27,000 --> 01:23:31,380
about our process and how things have to be paid for.

921
01:23:31,800 --> 01:23:34,240
But also, thank you again to the council

922
01:23:34,240 --> 01:23:36,800
for going through and giving feedback

923
01:23:36,800 --> 01:23:40,320
before tonight's meeting, because that feedback was really

924
01:23:40,320 --> 01:23:42,240
essential to what we see tonight.

925
01:23:44,140 --> 01:23:48,920
So having said that, any other questions for our staff?

926
01:23:52,910 --> 01:23:55,470
Okay. And that's why

927
01:23:55,470 --> 01:23:58,390
there are no questions because everyone worked so it makes me a little

928
01:23:58,390 --> 01:24:02,230
emotional because everybody has worked so hard and spent so many hours here

929
01:24:02,230 --> 01:24:11,250
going through this budget. So I just, wow, thank you. Well then I think we are

930
01:24:11,250 --> 01:24:14,870
ready. Now I just want to make, I didn't make note of this, but the

931
01:24:14,870 --> 01:24:21,430
public hearing was for the RDA and it was for the LBA as well because we're

932
01:24:21,430 --> 01:24:25,070
gonna have to go into those meetings because the tentative budget is for those

933
01:24:25,070 --> 01:24:30,330
boards as well they're separate boards and so we will actually have those

934
01:24:30,330 --> 01:24:34,610
meetings tonight as well but we did have the public hearing for the entire

935
01:24:34,610 --> 01:24:38,550
tentative budget for those other boards. All right do I have a motion?

936
01:24:43,370 --> 01:24:43,930
I

937
01:24:43,930 --> 01:24:44,070
Second.

938
01:24:44,470 --> 01:24:44,990
Right.

939
01:24:45,270 --> 01:24:45,910
Thank you.

940
01:24:46,030 --> 01:24:51,730
As moved by Council Member Austin, it was seconded by Council Member Wilding.

941
01:24:51,970 --> 01:24:53,670
And we do need a roll call vote, please.

942
01:24:54,670 --> 01:24:55,730
Council Member Lord.

943
01:24:56,030 --> 01:24:56,250
Yes.

944
01:24:56,690 --> 01:24:57,670
Council Member Austin.

945
01:24:58,050 --> 01:24:58,170
Yes.

946
01:24:58,390 --> 01:24:59,250
Council Member Austin.

947
01:24:59,670 --> 01:24:59,870
Yes.

948
01:25:00,050 --> 01:25:00,970
Council Member Wilding.

949
01:25:01,150 --> 01:25:01,350
Yes.

950
01:25:01,550 --> 01:25:02,910
Council Member Smith.

951
01:25:03,370 --> 01:25:03,570
Yes.

952
01:25:04,290 --> 01:25:04,990
Motion passed.

953
01:25:05,690 --> 01:25:06,010
Okay.

954
01:25:06,070 --> 01:25:06,510
Thank you.

955
01:25:06,630 --> 01:25:08,530
We will be moving into our next board meeting.

956
01:25:08,850 --> 01:25:11,190
We are in the local building authority.

957
01:25:11,190 --> 01:25:13,630
Everybody, everyone is in attendance.

958
01:25:14,810 --> 01:25:16,350
We have had our public hearing

959
01:25:16,930 --> 01:25:20,150
and we do need to adopt the tentative budget for the LBA.

960
01:25:20,870 --> 01:25:26,750
Just for the public's purpose, the LBA board is the council,

961
01:25:27,730 --> 01:25:31,070
but this board is for financing our buildings,

962
01:25:31,490 --> 01:25:33,590
our fire department, our public works department

963
01:25:33,590 --> 01:25:34,510
and our city hall.

964
01:25:34,830 --> 01:25:36,370
Do I have a motion?

965
01:25:36,370 --> 01:25:43,090
I'll move we approve Resolution 202618 LBA. Second. All right. It was moved by

966
01:25:43,090 --> 01:25:48,410
Councilmember Astin. It was seconded by Councilmember Austin. Roll call. Vote

967
01:25:48,410 --> 01:25:54,810
please. Trustee Austin. Yes. Trustee Astin. Yes. Trustee Wilding. Yes. Chair

968
01:25:54,810 --> 01:25:59,830
Hall. Yes. Trustee Smith. Yes. Trustee Lord. Yes. Motion passed. Wonderful.

969
01:26:00,370 --> 01:26:04,170
All right. Not seeing any other discussion for the LBA will adjourn

970
01:26:04,170 --> 01:26:06,970
and then I'm going to turn it over for the next meeting

971
01:26:06,970 --> 01:26:08,470
to Chair Lord.

972
01:26:12,980 --> 01:26:16,800
Welcome to our Bluffdale redevelopment agency board

973
01:26:16,800 --> 01:26:17,160
meeting.

974
01:26:17,900 --> 01:26:19,380
Quick roll call.

975
01:26:21,020 --> 01:26:22,400
Do we need to do that?

976
01:26:22,740 --> 01:26:23,980
Formal, we're all here.

977
01:26:27,700 --> 01:26:31,480
Do I have any discussion or do I have a motion?

978
01:26:31,480 --> 01:26:35,600
We approve resolution 2026-19 RDA.

979
01:26:36,060 --> 01:26:36,440
Second.

980
01:26:38,800 --> 01:26:39,140
Okay.

981
01:26:39,440 --> 01:26:44,480
We've got Council Member Aston with,

982
01:26:46,820 --> 01:26:51,900
we don't do this often, with the motion and Council

983
01:26:51,900 --> 01:26:53,060
Member Austin second.

984
01:26:54,680 --> 01:26:56,680
Do a roll call vote, please.

985
01:26:57,860 --> 01:26:58,860
Board Member Aston.

986
01:26:59,520 --> 01:26:59,620
Yes.

987
01:26:59,900 --> 01:27:00,800
Board Member Wilding.

988
01:27:01,020 --> 01:27:01,200
Yes.

989
01:27:01,520 --> 01:27:02,240
Board Member Hall.

990
01:27:02,480 --> 01:27:02,680
Yes.

991
01:27:02,680 --> 01:27:02,840
Yes.

992
01:27:02,940 --> 01:27:03,660
Board Member Smith.

993
01:27:04,340 --> 01:27:04,740
Chair Lord.

994
01:27:05,060 --> 01:27:05,260
Yes.

995
01:27:05,540 --> 01:27:06,700
Board Member Austin.

996
01:27:07,080 --> 01:27:07,200
Yes.

997
01:27:07,480 --> 01:27:08,180
Motion passed.

998
01:27:09,240 --> 01:27:09,660
Okay.

999
01:27:09,900 --> 01:27:16,540
With that, do I have a motion to end the meeting?

1000
01:27:16,900 --> 01:27:17,660
I move we adjourn.

1001
01:27:18,460 --> 01:27:18,800
Hang on.

1002
01:27:19,000 --> 01:27:19,480
All in favor.

1003
01:27:19,800 --> 01:27:20,000
Aye.

1004
01:27:20,280 --> 01:27:20,440
Aye.

1005
01:27:21,180 --> 01:27:24,360
We are officially adjourned from the RDA Board.

1006
01:27:24,560 --> 01:27:25,760
Excellent job.

1007
01:27:27,260 --> 01:27:28,100
Chair Lord.

1008
01:27:28,480 --> 01:27:28,960
Awesome.

1009
01:27:29,400 --> 01:27:29,680
Okay.

1010
01:27:29,680 --> 01:27:34,240
Okay, we do have staff reports and additional council discussion.

1011
01:27:35,400 --> 01:27:38,180
I do have an item for the council.

1012
01:27:38,780 --> 01:27:40,880
Will you please make sure to put in your T-shirt order?

1013
01:27:41,620 --> 01:27:43,280
That's the T-shirt for the year.

1014
01:27:44,360 --> 01:27:49,140
Also, the Chamber has an award, and I don't know that it's been announced publicly,

1015
01:27:49,300 --> 01:27:52,100
but hopefully you received the email for one of our small businesses.

1016
01:27:53,720 --> 01:27:58,580
Will you, after the meeting, just let me know if you can attend that on April 29th?

1017
01:27:58,580 --> 01:28:03,240
And don't forget to oh I'll forget so don't you forget to tell me and

1018
01:28:05,540 --> 01:28:07,740
Were there any other items of

1019
01:28:08,420 --> 01:28:14,560
Course our calendar is all on the city website. So any events or activities miss Bluffdell is coming up

1020
01:28:14,560 --> 01:28:20,000
But yes, yeah, I saw the email for the police

1021
01:28:20,700 --> 01:28:26,040
recognition luncheon next that's right and it would be helpful if you can

1022
01:28:26,040 --> 01:28:31,300
reply to that email and let them know if you can go that way they can kind of

1023
01:28:31,300 --> 01:28:39,840
plan seating so yeah great thank you I have a discussion yep I got a couple of

1024
01:28:39,840 --> 01:28:45,100
calls this week about possibly putting a porta potty in the rodeo arena because

1025
01:28:45,100 --> 01:28:50,180
they no longer have access to the bathrooms in the parks building just

1026
01:28:50,180 --> 01:28:54,040
until our bathrooms that we're building are complete is that a

1027
01:28:54,040 --> 01:28:56,480
possibility. Yes. Thank you.

1028
01:29:00,370 --> 01:29:05,710
That's where? The rodeo arena. Just if someone's out walking

1029
01:29:05,710 --> 01:29:11,570
and they have a bathroom emergency. Well they're using, the rodeo arena is getting used now,

1030
01:29:11,650 --> 01:29:17,150
the warmer, the weather is warmer. I mean this is for active use right now. Yes, and

1031
01:29:17,150 --> 01:29:23,030
there's no air. I don't believe the bathrooms even in the park are open yet. Well, correct.

1032
01:29:23,030 --> 01:29:28,370
They've been able to use the bathroom that's attached to our current building, but we've

1033
01:29:28,370 --> 01:29:33,710
restricted that area as this construction is going on for the administrative portion of

1034
01:29:33,710 --> 01:29:34,090
that building.

1035
01:29:34,630 --> 01:29:35,970
That's why it's being requested.

1036
01:29:36,330 --> 01:29:36,830
I get it.

1037
01:29:36,910 --> 01:29:37,770
We'll have one delivered.

1038
01:29:38,270 --> 01:29:38,870
Thank you.

1039
01:29:39,070 --> 01:29:39,410
Sure.

1040
01:29:42,510 --> 01:29:42,690
Thanks.

1041
01:29:42,690 --> 01:29:43,010
Thank you.

1042
01:29:44,310 --> 01:29:45,350
Staff reports.

1043
01:29:47,050 --> 01:29:50,830
Didn't want to cover a lot of this stuff that's on the calendar at this time.

1044
01:29:50,830 --> 01:29:55,170
did want to report that the bathrooms are under way, the slabs have been poured,

1045
01:29:55,810 --> 01:29:59,870
we're expecting that they will be fully functional by the time we have our first

1046
01:30:00,270 --> 01:30:06,350
Big event in the rodeo arena. Apparently, they're not quite ready for these smaller events where people are just riding around, so

1047
01:30:06,350 --> 01:30:10,750
we'll make sure that we have a port-a-potty available from that standpoint.

1048
01:30:11,650 --> 01:30:15,230
And since Shane's here, I'll just ask him to make sure that that happens.

1049
01:30:18,280 --> 01:30:19,100
There we go.

1050
01:30:22,360 --> 01:30:27,800
We're excited to have the meetings coming up for the council.

1051
01:30:27,800 --> 01:30:32,600
look forward to those that are going to be coming down to the the league's spring

1052
01:30:32,600 --> 01:30:38,460
meeting this in a in a couple of weeks now that same week earlier in the week

1053
01:30:38,460 --> 01:30:43,820
I'll be down to st. George as well to the city managers meeting so if you need

1054
01:30:43,820 --> 01:30:48,760
me call me on myself certainly be available did want to report that the

1055
01:30:48,760 --> 01:30:53,220
project is moving forward on the trestle not excuse me I've been told

1056
01:30:53,220 --> 01:30:59,680
not to use the trestle because it's not. The railroad underpass project is moving forward.

1057
01:31:00,620 --> 01:31:05,580
We're seeing a lot of great progress there and we're excited to keep that moving.

1058
01:31:05,800 --> 01:31:10,460
Thank you so very much for passing the bonding so that we can continue that work.

1059
01:31:11,980 --> 01:31:17,480
Yes. Is that on schedule? It depends upon whose schedule you're using.

1060
01:31:20,200 --> 01:31:28,540
Michael is very effective at pushing, pushing, pushing, and the contractors aren't always

1061
01:31:29,050 --> 01:31:35,160
as effective at making it happen according to his schedule, but between the two, we are

1062
01:31:35,160 --> 01:31:39,300
moving forward and getting it done, and we appreciate that very, very much.

1063
01:31:40,100 --> 01:31:46,880
I guess I only ask that, you know, because occasionally citizens ask us and want to know

1064
01:31:46,880 --> 01:31:52,180
You know, the end dates, we put that out there, but it's just nice to know if we can report.

1065
01:31:52,380 --> 01:31:59,980
Well, some of the challenges that come with respect to that as an example is working with Union Pacific,

1066
01:32:00,920 --> 01:32:05,860
you really can't set a deadline because they are going to do things on their timeline.

1067
01:32:06,320 --> 01:32:11,380
And so as we're coordinating different things with their approvals and moving forward,

1068
01:32:11,860 --> 01:32:14,960
there are some challenges there that we just simply can't overcome.

1069
01:32:14,960 --> 01:32:21,440
And then logistically, sometimes things will come up that were unexpected that delay it a bit.

1070
01:32:21,920 --> 01:32:28,060
We're not a long ways off. I would say we're still within a month or two of when we originally projected.

1071
01:32:29,480 --> 01:32:34,140
With Michael, he would say that we're right on track because he's going to continue to push that.

1072
01:32:35,000 --> 01:32:39,120
I think that the contractors are saying that they would like a couple more months.

1073
01:32:39,120 --> 01:32:46,100
and my vote's with Michael on this one. He's a force to be reckoned with. I would like

1074
01:32:46,100 --> 01:32:52,200
to say with respect to that and sometimes we don't have a great glimpse into other people's

1075
01:32:52,200 --> 01:32:58,240
lives and what they do on a day-to-day basis until we've walked in their shoes. I've

1076
01:32:58,240 --> 01:33:02,060
had the opportunity over the last few weeks to see some of the things that Michael goes

1077
01:33:02,060 --> 01:33:07,940
through in working with the contractors to look at line item details to make sure

1078
01:33:07,940 --> 01:33:13,480
that we are getting the value that we're paying for, and not paying for things that

1079
01:33:13,480 --> 01:33:20,240
are unnecessary, unneeded, or have no value to the project. And the amount of time he's

1080
01:33:20,240 --> 01:33:26,040
putting in on that and the stress and sleepless nights that he goes through, I'd just like

1081
01:33:26,040 --> 01:33:27,320
to say publicly thank you.

1082
01:33:30,750 --> 01:33:31,490
Mayor Hall?

1083
01:33:31,990 --> 01:33:32,170
Yes.

1084
01:33:32,410 --> 01:33:33,730
Can I just ask a question on that?

1085
01:33:33,890 --> 01:33:34,330
Yes, please.

1086
01:33:34,330 --> 01:33:39,450
Bruce, so I've forwarded you some information from residents about the traffic issues with

1087
01:33:39,450 --> 01:33:39,930
the detour.

1088
01:33:40,410 --> 01:33:45,230
Maybe just for everybody else's sake, do you want to give an update on those changes and

1089
01:33:45,650 --> 01:33:47,350
on how they've been resolved?

1090
01:33:47,630 --> 01:33:53,930
Yeah, the initial detour clearly did not work well, and part of it was because it wasn't

1091
01:33:53,930 --> 01:33:56,430
following the plan that the detour is supposed to take.

1092
01:33:57,110 --> 01:33:58,730
We've got that resolved now.

1093
01:33:58,730 --> 01:34:04,430
Now there are still a number of issues that have coming up just because traffic is taking

1094
01:34:04,430 --> 01:34:06,470
different routes now and that's a natural thing.

1095
01:34:06,570 --> 01:34:11,570
People find the easiest route for them, not necessarily the route that we do detour them

1096
01:34:11,570 --> 01:34:11,870
through.

1097
01:34:12,890 --> 01:34:18,250
That being said, we've received a number of emails as well besides the ones that you've

1098
01:34:18,250 --> 01:34:23,150
received that people were worried about speeding too much traffic in certain areas.

1099
01:34:23,150 --> 01:34:28,670
Because I've requested that the trailers be deployed so that we can see what's actually

1100
01:34:28,670 --> 01:34:35,170
happening and help to slow that down, we'll be deploying some tubes as well to make sure

1101
01:34:35,170 --> 01:34:41,330
that the speeding really is speeding, that we're seeing how bad it is, and also doing

1102
01:34:41,330 --> 01:34:46,230
traffic counts so that we can identify what level of patrols we need to order in those

1103
01:34:46,230 --> 01:34:46,850
different places.

1104
01:34:47,290 --> 01:34:48,770
So we are reacting.

1105
01:34:48,770 --> 01:34:57,430
We don't have a million police officers, so we can't have everybody on every street that the detourer people are taking.

1106
01:34:58,070 --> 01:35:05,330
But we are trying to curb it and making sure that we're keeping our citizens safe, our residents safe.

1107
01:35:06,350 --> 01:35:11,630
And thank you for addressing those things. And quickly, fairly quickly, I appreciate that.

1108
01:35:11,630 --> 01:35:17,290
Once again, sometimes doing it immediately is challenging, but we really have tried to

1109
01:35:17,290 --> 01:35:23,910
be responsive and get it to happen, and I appreciate the police department for how quickly they've

1110
01:35:23,910 --> 01:35:28,670
reacted to various things, including going out there and directing people when it was

1111
01:35:28,670 --> 01:35:29,230
really a mess.

1112
01:35:31,700 --> 01:35:37,300
Along those lines, the council just received an email regarding some traffic issues,

1113
01:35:37,300 --> 01:35:42,980
and sometimes it's hard when we all receive the same email and who's

1114
01:35:42,980 --> 01:35:48,020
responding to what and how are we responding on that particular email. Could

1115
01:35:48,020 --> 01:35:53,500
our city manager answer that in CCS so that it's just it's that way we're not

1116
01:35:54,080 --> 01:35:58,360
calling you and saying different things and we want to be able to be let's

1117
01:35:58,360 --> 01:36:02,020
let's is that okay with everyone on that email that we just received? I

1118
01:36:02,020 --> 01:36:05,920
believe Bruce was also included. He was. I was on that. He was but

1119
01:36:05,920 --> 01:36:10,420
But usually when he sees the council on it, he doesn't automatically respond.

1120
01:36:10,620 --> 01:36:15,800
He wants to know how the council wants to handle it, so we'll just work on a response

1121
01:36:15,800 --> 01:36:17,160
and make sure the council is involved.

1122
01:36:18,060 --> 01:36:19,060
Okay, that would be great.

1123
01:36:19,380 --> 01:36:23,180
Since we are talking about the police for just a minute, I would like to say that

1124
01:36:23,180 --> 01:36:27,260
I talked to the young lady that talked in the public hearing regarding the meeting

1125
01:36:29,300 --> 01:36:30,680
earlier before this meeting.

1126
01:36:31,800 --> 01:36:35,240
She had responded to us in an email, I think it was.

1127
01:36:35,240 --> 01:36:38,180
and I called her back and talked to her for a little while.

1128
01:36:38,940 --> 01:36:40,560
No, actually she called in and talked to Amanda.

1129
01:36:41,160 --> 01:36:42,720
That's how I got the information, I think.

1130
01:36:43,540 --> 01:36:45,040
Anyway, I called her and talked with her,

1131
01:36:45,720 --> 01:36:48,660
learned the back story of kind of what was happening

1132
01:36:48,660 --> 01:36:50,020
and what her frustrations were.

1133
01:36:50,480 --> 01:36:51,960
I reached out to the police department

1134
01:36:51,960 --> 01:36:54,200
and we went back and forth and discussed

1135
01:36:54,600 --> 01:36:57,520
what had been provided, how it was working,

1136
01:36:57,720 --> 01:36:58,540
how it wasn't working.

1137
01:36:59,200 --> 01:37:01,660
And they recognized that it is part of the contract

1138
01:37:01,660 --> 01:37:03,500
and have committed to make sure that they are

1139
01:37:03,500 --> 01:37:06,260
are stepping up and providing those resources

1140
01:37:06,260 --> 01:37:08,780
for our residents, just like they are for Saratoga

1141
01:37:09,320 --> 01:37:12,040
and doing that dual coverage for this county as well.

1142
01:37:12,360 --> 01:37:14,480
So they have made that commitment

1143
01:37:14,480 --> 01:37:17,240
and I appreciate them stepping up and taking care of that.

1144
01:37:17,620 --> 01:37:19,900
Thank you, I really appreciate that.

1145
01:37:20,540 --> 01:37:22,440
All right, any other council discussion?

1146
01:37:23,940 --> 01:37:26,340
All right, do I have a motion to adjourn?

1147
01:37:27,900 --> 01:37:29,000
Move for you adjourned.

1148
01:37:29,180 --> 01:37:29,340
Second.

1149
01:37:30,300 --> 01:37:32,760
All right, it was moved by council member Austin,

1150
01:37:32,760 --> 01:37:38,740
seconded by council member Aston. All in favor? All right. We're adjourned at 7.36.

1151
01:37:42,560 --> 01:37:44,940
Wait, Amanda's going to...